fus-, fun-, fund-, fut-, found-

(Latin > French: pour, melt, blend)

1. The pouring on of water or another liquid on a person's head, as in the rite of baptism: Lester's young son was having an affusion as a religious celebration that he is a Christian.
2. The pouring of a natural fluid on the body or any of its parts for therapeutic purposes: David was getting a cold affusion by a doctor in order to reduce the temperature of his fever and to calm his nervous condition.

Forcing the blood from the extremities with the applications of bandages, or other pressure devices, to raise the fluid pressure and to fill the vessels in the vital organs of the body: The use of autoinfusions take place after an abnormal loss of blood or other body fluids has occurred.

Autoinfusions are used to force venous blood towards the heart for patients who have had significant losses of the vital body substance.

A procedure for collecting and storing a patient's own blood several weeks before its expected need by the patient: This method of providing blood, or autologous transfusion, for an individual is done in order to prevent the transmission of diseases which can take place with the use of donor blood.

Blood that is lost during a surgical procedure can be recovered from the operation site and processed for the circulatory system when a patient's autologous transfusion is available.

Withdrawal of and re-injection or transfer of a patient's own blood: "Autotransfusion, autohemotransfusion, and autoreinfusion all have the same meaning of being an infusion of a patient's own blood, which has either been collected and returned to the body during a surgery or transfused from a stored supply of blood."

1. To perplex or to amaze; especially, by a sudden disturbance or surprise; to bewilder; to confuse: Trying to comprehend the complicated directions for operating his new TV confounded the father too much.
2. To throw into confusion or disorder: The new tax system confounded the people, because it seemed to be much more complicated than in the previous years.
3. To throw into increased confusion or disorder: The Smith family was planning on going on a camping trip for the very first time and they had a list of what they needed and put everything into orderly piles in the living room. Their little daughter confounded everything by hurling some of their camping gear into the air!
4. To treat or regard erroneously as identical; to mix or associate by mistake: What Jacob said confounded truth with errors.
5. To mingle so that the elements cannot be distinguished or separated: When water and sugar are dissolved together in hot water they are confounded and cannot be parted again.
6. To contradict or to refute: Sharon tried to confound her parent's arguments about her quitting her current job and looking for a new one.
7. Etymology: from Middle English confounden, from Anglo-Norman confundre, from Latin confundere, "to mix together, to confuse"; from com-, "together" + fundere, "to pour".